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9780385281348 | Dell Pub Co, September 1, 1974, cover price $3.95

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9780316090490 | Back Bay Books, November 29, 2009, cover price $10.99

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By Marian Wright Edelman (foreword by), Ronald J. Sider (editor) and Heidi Unruh (editor)
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9780817015053 | Judson Pr, May 30, 2007, cover price $16.00

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Essays explore and assess the effects of poverty on children and their families, looking at the medical care and education provided for and accessible to poor children, the impact of welfare reform on poor families, and legislation and policies regardinglow-income families.
By Barbara A. Arrighi (editor), David J. Maume (editor) and Diana Pearce (foreword by)
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9780275989262 | Praeger Pub Text, May 30, 2007, cover price $300.00 | About this edition: Essays explore and assess the effects of poverty on children and their families, looking at the medical care and education provided for and accessible to poor children, the impact of welfare reform on poor families, and legislation and policies regardinglow-income families.

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Product Description: Lack of access to affordable high-quality child care is frequently the tipping point that catapults a family into poverty, joblessness, and homelessness -- a constant threat to the well-being of women and children. Polakow spent a year traveling around the country listening to low-income women from diverse backgrounds tell their stories of struggle, resilience, distress, and occasional success as they encountered ongoing child care crises...read more
By Barbara Ehrenreich (foreword by) and Valerie Polakow
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9780807747759 | Teachers College Pr, April 30, 2007, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: Lack of access to affordable high quality child care is frequently the tipping point that catapults a family into poverty, joblessness, and homelessness-a constant threat to the well-being of women and children.

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9780807747742 | Teachers College Pr, April 30, 2007, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Lack of access to affordable high-quality child care is frequently the tipping point that catapults a family into poverty, joblessness, and homelessness -- a constant threat to the well-being of women and children.

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Product Description: In Poor Kids in a Rich Country, Lee Rainwater and Timothy Smeeding ask what it means to be poor in a prosperous nation—especially for any country’s most vulnerable citizens, its children. In comparing the situation of American children in low-income families with their counterparts in 14 other countries—including Western Europe, Australia, and Canada—they provide a powerful perspective on the dynamics of child poverty in the United States...read more
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9780871547026 | Russell Sage Foundation, December 1, 2003, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In Poor Kids in a Rich Country, Lee Rainwater and Timothy Smeeding ask what it means to be poor in a prosperous nation—especially for any country’s most vulnerable citizens, its children.

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9780871547057 | Russell Sage Foundation, March 31, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In Poor Kids in a Rich Country, Lee Rainwater and Timothy Smeeding ask what it means to be poor in a prosperous nation—especially for any country’s most vulnerable citizens, its children.

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Selections from the author's Pulizer Prize-winning five-volume Children of Crisis series combine in a single, abridged volume, featuring a new introduction by the author, that explores the effects of poverty, wealth, ethnic background, and turmoil on the nation's young people.
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9780316155472 | Little Brown & Co, January 1, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Selections from the author's Pulizer Prize-winning five-volume Children of Crisis series combine in a single, abridged volume, featuring a new introduction by the author, that explores the effects of poverty, wealth, ethnic background, and turmoil on the nation's young people.

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning series, available for the first time in a single, abridged volume, discusses the challenges of African-American children in a racially charged south, the children of impoverished Appalachian migrant workers, the children of wealthy families struggling with privilege, and more. Reprint.
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9780316151023 | Reprint edition (Back Bay Books, July 30, 2003), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A Pulitzer Prize-winning series, available for the first time in a single, abridged volume, discusses the challenges of African-American children in a racially charged south, the children of impoverished Appalachian migrant workers, the children of wealthy families struggling with privilege, and more.

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Looks at the lives of poor women and girls in the United States
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9780807042083 | Beacon Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Looks at the lives of poor women and girls in the United States

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9780807042090 | Beacon Pr, September 25, 1999, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A radically new vision of women and girls living below the poverty line; Lisa Dodson makes a frontal assault on conventional attitudes and stereotypes of women in poor America and the seriously misguided "welfare reform" policies of the end of the century.
9789990039931 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1999, cover price $0.02

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9780807042069 | Beacon Pr, November 14, 2000, cover price $24.00

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Product Description: In Seeing Children, Seeing God, Pamela Couture explores the actual and potential relation of the church and the theological school to economically and socially (relationally) poor children. She argues that the solution to the problem of child poverty requires the shared responsibility of individuals, families, neighborhoods, congregations, governments, businesses, and international organizations because children develop within these multiple systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780687084265 | Abingdon Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In Seeing Children, Seeing God, Pamela Couture explores the actual and potential relation of the church and the theological school to economically and socially (relationally) poor children.

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By Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (editor) and Greg J. Duncan (editor)
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9780871541437 | Russell Sage Foundation, June 1, 1997, cover price $55.00

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9780871541444 | Russell Sage Foundation, September 1, 1999, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: This is a book about how a system designed to help children is instead helping to destroy them. For almost thirty years Patrick Murphy has represented abused and neglected children in court cases at every level of the state and federal judiciary, including the U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781566631631 | Ivan R Dee, September 1, 1997, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: The public guardian of Cook County, Illinois, charges that the child welfare bureaucracy, designed to help children, is instead helping to destroy them.

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9781566633338 | Ivan R Dee, September 1, 1997, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: This is a book about how a system designed to help children is instead helping to destroy them.

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Product Description: Free downloadable leader's guide from publisher for use in small group studies! "Does Your Child's World Scare You? Making the World a Better Place for Children" offers a wealth of information about the shape of today's world and how it affects children...read more
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9781573120982 | Smyth & Helwys Pub, March 1, 1997, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Free downloadable leader's guide from publisher for use in small group studies!

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9780815325383 | Revised edition (Routledge, February 1, 1997), cover price $145.00

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9780926582200 | Natl Council of Churches, September 1, 1996, cover price $16.95

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Product Description: Poverty among black children has increased in recent years. This monograph focuses on trends in black children's economic well-being between 1960 and 1985. Five factors of family structure, number of earners in the family, geographic location, reliance on public assistance, and the age of the family headóare examined to determine their effects on the recent decline in the economic status of black children...read more
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9780941410953 | Univ Pr of Amer, December 1, 1994, cover price $66.50 | About this edition: Poverty among black children has increased in recent years.

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9780875532189 | Amer Public Health Assn, December 1, 1994, cover price $22.50

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Product Description: The Children's Defense Fund Report on the Costs of Child Poverty
By Children's Defense Fund (other contributor) and Arloc Sherman
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9780807041062 | Beacon Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The Children's Defense Fund Report on the Costs of Child Poverty

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9780807041079 | Beacon Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The Children's Defense Fund Report on the Costs of Child Poverty

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Product Description: One out of five children, and one out of two single mothers, lives in destitution in America today. The feminization and "infantilization" of poverty have made the United States one of the most dangerous democracies for poor mothers and their children to inhabit...read more
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9780226671833 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 1993, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Argues that one in five American children and one in two single mothers live in poverty, argues that sterotyped views of the family have shaped government policy, and looks at actual cases

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9780226671840 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, May 28, 1994), cover price $22.50 | About this edition: One out of five children, and one out of two single mothers, lives in destitution in America today.

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Product Description: Poverty among black children has increased in recent years. This monograph focuses on trends in black children's economic well-being between 1960 and 1985. Five factors-family structure, number of earners in the family, geographic location, reliance on public assistance, and the age of the family head-are examined to determine their effects on the recent decline in the economic status of black children...read more
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9780941410960 | Univ Pr of Amer, March 1, 1994, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Poverty among black children has increased in recent years.

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A compilation of articles, addresses, and book excerpts examines the changing family, child care problems, and poverty
By Robin Brown (editor)
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9780824208530 | Hw Wilson Co, February 1, 1994, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A compilation of articles, addresses, and book excerpts examines the changing family, child care problems, and poverty

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By Judith A. Chafel (editor)
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9780877666097 | Urban Inst Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $69.50

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9780877666103 | Urban Inst Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $30.50

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Product Description: Using data from the National Child Care Survey 1990 and its low-income supplement, this report examines the care arrangements of children under age 13 in families with annual incomes below $15,000. The study represents over 6 million low-income households with children under age 13 and the 12 million children under age 13 in these families...read more
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9780877665878 | Urban Inst Pr, March 1, 1993, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: Using data from the National Child Care Survey 1990 and its low-income supplement, this report examines the care arrangements of children under age 13 in families with annual incomes below $15,000.

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Product Description: Using data from the National Child Care Survey 1990 and its low-income supplement, this report examines the care arrangements of children under age 13 in families with annual incomes below $15,000. The study represents over 6 million low-income households with children under age 13 and the 12 million children under age 13 in these families...read more
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9780877665861 | Urban Inst Pr, March 1, 1993, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Using data from the National Child Care Survey 1990 and its low-income supplement, this report examines the care arrangements of children under age 13 in families with annual incomes below $15,000.

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9780865690455 | Praeger Pub Text, January 1, 1993, cover price $103.95

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9780938008910 | Childrens Defense Fund, January 1, 1992, cover price $12.95

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